From
January 2000 until March 2015 "Queer Music Heritage" was
both a radio show and a website, and the goal of both was to preserve
and share the music
of our culture. It has become the resource on the net for the history
of LGBT music. Each month's page gives the playlist and additional
pages of info, and
you can stream or download every show; there's over 580 hours of
programming available. This is a deep site, covering over 2000 pages.
Thanks for your support over the years.

I
tried to make my last show, for March 2015, a special one, and it's
a four-hour romp with Camp Music. You
can hear it Here,
and the last OutRadio Here.
Also, to find all my websites, visit www.JDDoyleArchives.org

New
Pages on QMH:
While no new shows are being added, I often add new graphics to a section,
or new information to sections (like Gay
Musicals) and even less often add an entirely new page, like these...(newest
listed first)

The Drag
& Female Impersonation sections of my site really could have
been spun off into their own website...as they comprise so very many
pages of the site, and have been a major draw for people finding and
visiting my site over the years. I never did that as on my radio shows
I played scores of those artists, and wanted additional info I have
on them to be handy. They represent probably the largest collection
of this information on the internet.

As the graphic says,
major sections include:
a Drag Artist Discography, cataloging recordings of these
performers
Female Impersonation Galleries, for major performers of
the early years
Club Information and Programs for the famous venues
Vintage Sheet Music of the 1920s/30s; drag club matchbooks
a major section on the Jewel Box Revue

Please
see these other special sections of my site

There
are a WHOLE bunch of special interest areas of our music history I want
to point you to:

Audiofile
was a monthly music review segment carried by the radio newsmagazine This
Way Out, on over 250 stations worldwide. It lasted 14 years, from 1997
through 2010. All segments are archived.

A companion show to QMH, OutRadio
focused mainly on new LGBT music.
The show ran from January 2010
through March 2015, all archived.

I
began a music blog in 2011, and added to it fairly faithfully (over 200
entries) through 2014, when I launched my other large websites and put
the blog way on the back burner...still, the material is on our music
history, and you may want to make a visit.

Very Miscellaneous

Above
left, I've acquired a scrapbook from 1949, from Edinburgh, Scotland,
that tells of the 30-year love of Angus Fitzroy for Toby McCutcheon,
with photos, drawings and postage stamps to mark their world travelsClick for the Album

Have you thought of
downloading my shows, perhaps for your iPod? It's tricky if like me
you use Firefox, so I temporarily open up Internet Explorer and paste
in the show's URL. Then Right Click on the Download button...that's
always the lower half of
my Listen buttons. Get the dropdown menu, and select "save target
as" ....that should open up a box asking where on your computer
you want to save the file. Once saved you can move
to iPod, MP3 player, etc.

And,
this listener paid Such a compliment to what I do, and what the artists
do,
that I had to share it. I marvel at how well he summed it all up in
just a few words.

and,
above left, presented to me by Tret Fure, Thanks!

The
JD Doyle Archives
has been approved by the IRS for 501c3 non-profit status,
so all donations are tax deductible. If you enjoy my site, please consider
a small donation.
All my sites have a huge amount of sound files and graphics, and well,
they are expensive sites,
requiring a large dedicated server.. If you're moved to help share
and preserve our culture's history I'd be very appreciative! - JD Doyle

Two books about queer
music came out in 2017, which you may want to check out.
Both are out of the UK. I think both are good, and both have their pros
and cons.

Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache: How Music Came Out - Martin Aston
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music - Darryl W Bullock

And I could not resist a chance to show that piece of 1934 sheet music,
which I have framed in my office.

For many
years I had a sort of preview page for this site...when you went to
the URL
you saw only the above graphic, which you had to click on to really
enter the site.
Now my site address goes directly to this page, as I guess it should
have for a long
time, but I still love the graphic and wanted to keep it visible.

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